{"id":21550,"date":"2014-04-13T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2014-04-13T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:00:11","slug":"fruit-flies-fighter-jets-use-similar-evasive-tactics-when-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/13\/fruit-flies-fighter-jets-use-similar-evasive-tactics-when-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked<\/a><\/p>\n

When startled by predators,\u00a0tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets \u2013 employing screaming-fast banked turns to evade attacks<\/a>. Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of flies after they encountered a looming image of an approaching predator (abstract<\/a>). ‘We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, and which is faster than we ever imagined.’ In the midst of a banked turn, the flies can roll on their sides 90 degrees or more, almost flying upside down at times, said Florian Muijres, a UW postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper. ‘These flies normally flap their wings 200 times a second and, in almost a single wing beat, the animal can reorient its body to generate a force away from the threatening stimulus and then continues to accelerate,’ he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First there was the anternet<\/a>, and now this? \u00a0It almost sounds like humans a giant insects…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked When startled by predators,\u00a0tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets \u2013 employing screaming-fast banked turns to evade attacks. Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of … Continue reading Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2985,2414,338,1117,655,866],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","tag-biology","tag-insects","tag-military","tag-research","tag-science","tag-weapons","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t